{"id":5523,"date":"2017-05-13T04:52:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T04:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/13\/post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc\/"},"modified":"2017-05-13T04:52:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T04:52:35","slug":"post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/13\/post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc?<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">&quot;Donald Trump is the first president in history whose campaign has come under F. B. I.-initiated investigation for collusion with a hostile foreign power. And the person heading that investigation, the F. B. I. director, has been fired.&quot; (Timothy Egan, <em>NYT<\/em> Op-Ed, 11 May 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">It might help if you read Rosenstein&#39;s Comey memorandum and related documents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/347867207\/Comey-firing-letters?irgwc=1&amp;content=10079&amp;campaign=Skimbit%2C%20Ltd.&amp;ad_group=&amp;keyword=ft750noi&amp;source=impactradius&amp;medium=affiliate#from_embed\">here<\/a>. &#0160;But if you are a lefty, it probably won&#39;t.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Donald Trump is the first president in history whose campaign has come under F. B. I.-initiated investigation for collusion with a hostile foreign power. And the person heading that investigation, the F. B. I. director, has been fired.&quot; (Timothy Egan, NYT Op-Ed, 11 May 2017) It might help if you read Rosenstein&#39;s Comey memorandum and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/13\/post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<i>Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc?<\/i>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informal-fallacies","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}